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A council has lost a landmark legal battle in the High Court to ban one of
Britain’s largest energy companies from building wind farms near homes.

The German-owned RWE npower went to court after Milton Keynes council tried to
impose a 1.2 kilometre exclusion zone around local residential areas to
block two of its planned onshore wind farms. National guidelines require
that developers build wind farms no closer than 350 metres.

The ruling is likely to make it harder for other councils looking to impose
similar restrictions, including Stratford-on-Avon, Cherwell in Oxfordshire,
Wiltshire and Staffordshire.